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The meaning of work
Lisl Klein has spent forty years working on the twin themes of the practice of social science in organizations and the importance of work and work organization. Papers on the first of these were published as Working Across the Gap. This volume brings together papers covering the second theme, the meaning and organization of work.
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Work environments : spatial concepts, usage strategies, communications
The requirements confronting our workplaces have recently undergone a dramatic transformation. Constantly shifting workspace populations and varying uses of workspace call for flexible spatial structures, and so do new professions and innovative working methods. The plannung of workspaces is influenced by the digitalization of our storage media as well as by new materials and building technologies. And yet for all the importance of flexibility and technology, the ultimate focus is still on human beings. How, then can the multilayered concepts of indoor climate, lighting, acoustics, and ergonomics be reconciled with spatial structures that lend themselves to a variety of uses? In keeping with the typological approach of the series, this volume of the series In Detail presents the various work environments organized according to use. The focus throughout is on the successful interplay between technical standards, organizational structures, and human needs.
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Work scape : new spaces for new work
\"WorkScape reveals how trailblazing companies from around the world are redefining where we work and how we work together. The book showcases office spaces by innovators such as Facebook, Google, YouTube, Monocle, KPMG, Red Bull, and Urban Outfitters that promote new forms of work, creativity, and collaboration. In addition to presenting architecture and interior design, WorkScape also explores more unconventional parameters that can make going to and being at work more attractive and satisfying. The forward-thinking offers featured here include company-run childcare facilities, bike share programs, communal vegetable gardens, and fully equipped health and wellness facilities. In WorkScape, office environments from global players are shown alongside compelling examples from smaller enterprises, temporary ventures, and freelance endeavors that all shake off the cubicle culture of the past. The book's careful pairing of stunning images with in-depth project descriptions and detailed floor plans make it an invaluable reference for anyone looking to redefine their workplaces, impress their partners and clients, and inspire their staff to think outside the box.\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Comment depasser la manipulation au bureau ?: Vers une ambiance de travail plus saine
Un guide pratique et accessible pour comprendre les enjeux de la manipulation au travailNous sommes tous susceptibles d'etre confrontes un jour ou l'autre a la manipulation, que ce soit en tant que temoin, manipule... ou meme manipulateur ! Les jeux de pouvoir et d'influence de ce genre sont en effet monnaie courante dans nos contacts quotidiens avec les autres, et sans doute encore plus sur notre lieu de travail, ou les relations sont complexifiees par la position hierarchique de chacun. Mais attention si vous croisez le chemin d'un veritable manipulateur pathologique... Ce livre vous aidera a :* Reconnaitre une situation de manipulation* Vous en proteger en developpant vos competences relationnelles* Reagir face a une relation toxique* Et bien plus encore !Le mot de l'editeur : Dans ce numero de la serie \"50MINUTES | Coaching pro\", Adrien de Fraipont s'attache a nous armer contre la manipulation au travail, source de degats psychologiques et physiques. Developper ses competences relationnelles afin de s'affirmer sans ecraser et d'etre acteur dans ses relations avec ses collegues et superieurs, voila ce que ce petit livre bien structure nous propose. Laure DelacroixA PROPOS DE LA SERIE 50MINUTES | Coaching proLa serie Coaching pro de la collection 50MINUTES s'adresse a tous ceux qui, en periode de transition ou non, desirent acquerir de nouvelles competences, reagir face a une situation qui les incommode, ou tout simplement reevaluer leur equilibre de travail. Dans un style simple et dynamique, nos auteurs combinent de la theorie, des pistes de reflexion, des exemples concrets et des exercices pratiques pour permettre a chacun d'avancer sur le chemin de l'epanouissement professionnel.
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In Detail, Work Environments
The requirements confronting our workplaces have recently undergone a dramatic transformation.Constantly shifting workspace populations and varying uses of workspace call for flexible spatial structures, and so do new professions and innovative working methods.
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fail safe management
Project failures are not confined to the development world. In 2004 Hartman and Ashrafi found that the project failure rate is above 60 percent for construction, engineering, and other technology projects, despite all the advances in project management theory and practice. This book's interest, however, is in the very large percentage of projects not subject to events beyond the control of project managers. In this regard, attention to the possibility of failure is the best guarantee of success. Understandably, public managers may be uncomfortable with such an inherently negative approach to managing public projects, which are, after all, designed and intended to produce a public good or to solve a public problem. The point is not to be pessimistic but realistic in managing public projects. Anticipating and solving problems can avert compounding those problems and the failures that result. And this book delivered five rule to avoid project failure: i) make it about the how; ii) keep your champions close but your critics closer; iii) informal networks matter-work with them; iv) unclog the pipes; and v) build the ship as it sails.
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Bright environmental light improves the sleepiness of nightshift ICU nurses
Background
Shift work can disturb circadian homeostasis and result in fatigue, excessive sleepiness, and reduced quality of life. Light therapy has been shown to impart positive effects in night shift workers. We sought to determine whether or not prolonged exposure to bright light during a night shift reduces sleepiness and enhances psychomotor performance among ICU nurses.
Methods
This is a single-center randomized, crossover clinical trial at a surgical trauma ICU. ICU nurses working a night shift were exposed to a 10-h period of high illuminance (1500–2000 lx) white light compared to standard ambient fluorescent lighting of the hospital. They then completed the Stanford Sleepiness Scale and the Psychomotor Vigilance Test. The primary and secondary endpoints were analyzed using the paired
t
test. A
p
value <0.05 was considered significant.
Results
A total of 43 matched pairs completed both lighting exposures and were analyzed. When exposed to high illuminance lighting subjects experienced reduced sleepiness scores on the Stanford Sleepiness Scale than when exposed to standard hospital lighting: mean (sem) 2.6 (0.2) vs. 3.0 (0.2),
p
= 0.03. However, they committed more psychomotor errors: 2.3 (0.2) vs. 1.7 (0.2),
p
= 0.03.
Conclusions
A bright lighting environment for ICU nurses working the night shift reduces sleepiness but increases the number of psychomotor errors.
Trial registration
ClinicalTrials.gov,
NCT03331822
. Retrospectively registered on 6 November 2017.
Journal Article
Making Virtual Worlds
The past decade has seen phenomenal growth in the development and use of virtual worlds. In one of the most notable, Second Life, millions of people have created online avatars in order to play games, take classes, socialize, and conduct business transactions. Second Life offers a gathering point and the tools for people to create a new world online.
Too often neglected in popular and scholarly accounts of such groundbreaking new environments is the simple truth that, of necessity, such virtual worlds emerge from physical workplaces marked by negotiation, creation, and constant change. Thomas Malaby spent a year at Linden Lab, the real-world home of Second Life, observing those who develop and profit from the sprawling, self-generating system they have created.
Some of the challenges created by Second Life for its developers were of a very traditional nature, such as how to cope with a business that is growing more quickly than existing staff can handle. Others are seemingly new: How, for instance, does one regulate something that is supposed to run on its own? Is it possible simply to create a space for people to use and then not govern its use? Can one apply these same free-range/free-market principles to the office environment in which the game is produced? \"Lindens\"-as the Linden Lab employees call themselves-found that their efforts to prompt user behavior of one sort or another were fraught with complexities, as a number of ongoing processes collided with their own interventions.
InMaking Virtual Worlds, Malaby thoughtfully describes the world of Linden Lab and the challenges faced while he was conducting his in-depth ethnographic research there. He shows how the workers of a very young but quickly growing company were themselves caught up in ideas about technology, games, and organizations, and struggled to manage not only their virtual world but also themselves in a nonhierarchical fashion. In exploring the practices the Lindens employed, he questions what was at stake in their virtual world, what a game really is (and how people participate), and the role of the unexpected in a product like Second Life and an organization like Linden Lab.
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